Home Server Scripting 4: Wrapping DTrace (And Other Scripts) Into SMF Services
In the last couple of posts, we used DTrace to notify our media servers and perfected our script a bit.
But the script is still not ready to be used on our home servers yet: It requires manual start and stop, not quite the service oriented automatism we’re used to in the Oracle Solaris world.
The next step is to wrap our DTrace script inside a Service Management Facility (SMF) service, then wrap everything into a shell script that will easily install or remove the service whenever we need it.